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A Place of Significance
Hood College traces its history to 1893, when the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church of the United States—now the United Church of Christ—established the Woman’s College of Frederick. The College acquired the land on which it now sits in 1897, made possible by a gift from Margaret Scholl Hood, for whom the College was named. Male students have been a part of Hood’s undergraduate and graduate populations since 1971. In October 2002, the Board of Trustees voted to allow men to reside on campus, making the College fully coeducational in fall 2003. We continue to preserve time-honored values and traditions that have made Hood the special institution we know it to be. Among Hood’s many attributes that will remain unchanged are its competitive admissions standards, outstanding academic programs, personal attention from a caring and committed faculty and staff and a friendly, inviting campus. Hood has been named:
- A “Great School at a Great Price” in U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges in the Universities-Master’s category;
- A “Best Value” in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance; and
- One of the “Best Northeastern Colleges” and “America’s Best Values” in the Princeton Review.
Honors Programs
Our interdisciplinary program offers exceptional undergraduate students four years of stimulating coursework and co-curricular activities designed to cultivate students’ ability to examine our complex world and to create a community for serious students.Hodson Science and Technology Center
Hood’s state-of-the-art $20 million research facility, where faculty and students integrate laboratory and lecture components into advanced scientific research, houses specially designed and equipped labs for ecology, microbiology, molecular biology, cell culture, chemistry, physiology and animal behavior.Distance Learning and Technology-Enhanced Classrooms
The latest multimedia equipment in 40 of our classrooms, including one dedicated to distance learning, supports new approaches to learning across the campus.Fully Accredited by the Middle States Commission
Hood recently met and exceeded all 14 standards of excellence for reaccreditation as described in the Middle States’ publication, Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education.